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From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:51:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120128195103.GA11299@sergelap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP12REAwmDORzdGJhsxZKU8nhiauCxoVdKa8Eifw4MWWtgA@mail.gmail.com>

Quoting Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org):
> We might also thing about changing /sys/class/tty/ptmx/, and have the
> kernel create the symlink? The loops through userspace to setup
> default kernel stuff are kind of crazy ...
> 
> Kay

Hi Kay,

sorry, there is something I'm missing here.  Without a target kobj
to link to, how would we go about telling the kernel that /dev/ptmx
should be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx?  Is there a way to do that?

thanks,
-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-28 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-24  0:05 [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24  0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24  0:25   ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24  0:41     ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24  1:07       ` Al Viro
2012-01-24 18:21         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:16           ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 20:53             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:24         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 22:02           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 22:54             ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-24 23:16               ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:25                 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 23:29                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:27                 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-28 19:51                   ` Serge Hallyn [this message]
2012-01-28 20:52                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-28 21:32                       ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-23  3:47                     ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: " Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  3:48                       ` [PATCH 1/4] devpts: Remove CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  3:49                       ` [PATCH 2/4] devpts: Set the default permissions of /dev/pts/ptmx and /dev/ptmx to 0666 Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  3:50                       ` [PATCH 3/4] devpts: Make the newinstance option historical Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  4:19                         ` Al Viro
2012-09-23  4:46                           ` Al Viro
2012-09-23  5:59                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  6:30                             ` Al Viro
2012-09-23  6:34                               ` Al Viro
2012-09-23  7:00                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23  3:51                       ` [PATCH 4/4] devpts: Update the documentation Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 16:48                       ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-23 17:42                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 17:44                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-24 23:35             ` [RFC] " Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 20:55       ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 21:19         ` Nick Bowler
2012-01-24  0:26   ` Al Viro

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